Butterfingers by Bomb the Bass

video here

The video was produced by Perish Factory where it is hosted.

via Steve.

Arduino Sequencer (first prototype)

YouTube via beamercola

"Tycho playing with my home built arduino midi sequencer. Still a work in progress!

First row is the standard note assignment
Second row is velocity (turned off in this video)
Third row is measure based global transposition

Tycho: http://tychomusic.com/
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/beamerco..."

via Beamer:
"Beamer here (from the Beamer Wall http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2007/10/3aaasp-flickr-set-via-zonkout.html)

I've been working on a sequencer project for a while and I got some good footage of my good friend Scott Hansen from Tycho (http://tychomusic.com/) and ISO50 (http://iso50.com/) playing with it.

And some photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beamercola/sets/72157604225735849/

It's based off of the Arduino right now.
The first row is your standard note assignment The second row is velocity (turned off in this video) The third row is measure based global transposition

The next extension I'll be doing is pots on both sides of each row allowing you to trim the left or right side of the sequence.

Thanks for all your hard work on the blog!
Beamer"

Thank you!

EWI Solo 1 (Paul Kerry)

YouTube via RoadRunnerLaser. via fischek.
"Paul Kerry demonstrating the amazing versatility of the EWI 4000s... This is part one of two. This is the start of the recording. Part two is probably slightly more interesting than part one. I made this recording because I wanted to record the riff so that I would not forget it. It's currently just a work in progress and I'm developing on the idea at the moment. (A version of this piece was played at Whistle Binkies - I now call this piece "Finally Live") The only instrument being played is the EWI. No drum machine, backing track or external equipment. The EWI is hooked to the amp via a radio transmitter. The instrument sound I'm using on the EWI, is one of my own custom settings that I designed to be an 'electronic didge'. This is the instrument that 'lacollll' referred to as my "grandma's fartophone". The sound was designed to be very 'quacky' and responsive to changes in breath because I wanted to use it, as I am doing in this video, with didgeridoo playing techniques. This particular version of that sound has the EWI's delay added to give me a form of 'note-repeat'. With the delay enabled, I can then play both the rhythm and the melody by alternating from one to the other, the delay keeping the rhythm going while I play a bar or two of melody. I normally prefer to play this sound without the delay because I like the response of the instrument and playing it clean gives a clearer impression of the way the instrument behaves. The technique used to make the sharp 'quack' is hard to describe accurately but it's based on the traditional didgeridoo playing technique called 'pulling'.

Didge players often describe this kind of playing with the syllables 'do-ro do-ro' as this approximates the action of the tongue. This tonguing technique is what I am using to create the rhythm. The sharp punchy quacks from playing this particular sound with that technique is the noise you are perceiving as a drum-beat. The effect is enhanced by the fact that it is layered by virtue of the EWI's internal delay. What you are hearing is purely a result of a combination of the EWI and playing technique"

FL Studio 8

"Key new features and changes

First of all, FL Studio 8 is everything which is included in FL Studio 7 plus many, many more. Let's have a look at its key new features ...

FL Synthmaker is a fully modular environment where you can create & share your own FL instruments, effects & dashboards without the need to write basic code.

One-click-recording using the built-in Edison Wave Editor, a fully integrated audio editing and recording tool with spectral analysis, convolution reverb, loop-recording and more…:

Slicex, the power horse drumloop slicer & re-arranging tool.

Soundgooodizer is a stereo 'maximizer-enhancer' plugin based on the Maximus sound processing engine.

Soundgoodizer is shiny it’s good!

Included Fruity Limiter/Maximizer for maximizing & compressing final mixes or individual tracks

FL Studio can permanently learn and remember links to external controllers with the new ‘multilink’ function + 'Override generic links' option.

Wave Candy is a flexible audio analysis and visualization tool with Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyser and Peak Meter.

Sinc interpolation now faster (64point sinc now usable real-time depending on CPU)

Rendering with latency compensation

Score logger, records all MIDI & note activity for instant recall.

Directwave Player, broaden your musical palette with downloadable sound banks and multi-sample sets.

Recording filter, to select Audio, Automation or Note data recording independently or in any combination.

New slip editing and resizing tool for Playlist clips

Multi-core safe plugins are threaded for performance gain on multi-core CPUs.

Introducing 'Selected mixer track' in Mixer, to which the selected mixer track is routed, and where to place visual effects or a recording Edison.

FL8 now supports Track-based sequencing, Pattern Clips present sequence data as Audio and/or Automation Clips

A 'News Panel', to keep users updated with content and patches."

What's new in FL8? page
Be sure to check out CDM for their write-up.

EMS VSC3 'The first manual'

Posted by derekrevell on electro-music.com. I'm only seeing one page though.

Playing around with the Minisonic II Analogue Synthesizer

YouTube via cogshiftingman.

via Nusonica.

"Here I am making some initial knob twiddles and switch action on my Minisonic II. I recently improved the power supply, and tuning of the VCOs."

SubLichtmaschine and Easter Noise - Modular Tracks by verstaerker

SubLichtmaschine
"almost all the system is involved creating a drone like sound (mainly noise through the the Cwejman Res) and Beats with the Doepfer A-106 - Bd from the Cwejman S1"

Easter Noise
"some noises i made on my easter holiday - as ususal mainly using Cwejman modules as the VCO-2RM, ADSR-VC2 and the RES-4 - sequenced with Doepfer A-A154/155

Noisy rhythmic sequences with the additional help of the two Doepfer Noise Modules A-117/118"

via the forum.

Update: One more:

Easter Groove
"groovy sequences done with several Doepfer and Cwejman Modules and the Cwejman S1"

Roland System 700

via sequencer.de

Update: this also came in via the AH mailing list via Kai. He is missing a switch cap for his and a fader cap for his System 100m. If anyone knows where to get any feel free to comment or shoot me an email - my contact info is on the right of the site.

Tenori-on Tommy Klein

YouTube via acidjack303. via sequencer.de
"Tommy Klein explain the Yamaha Tenori-on at the Musikmesse 2008 in Frankfurt Germany"

Jean Michel Jarre's return to planet Oxygene

“When I got them out of storage and played them again, I realised something that even I had forgotten - that these analogue instruments are unique,” Jarre says. “Choosing to use these old synths instead of their modern equivalents is not a retro thing, it is not nostalgia, it is because technological progress has almost nothing to do with the quality of the instrument.

A violinist playing today would rather play a Stradivarius than any other instrument - a violin made 400 years ago. Many guitarists would say that the best electric guitars ever made were Gibson Les Pauls and Fender Telecasters from the 1950s or early 1960s. It is the same with these analogue synths.”

You can find the full interview on the Times Online.